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| Posted by Mike Valiant (mike) on 8th March, 2010 | |
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LCT/wrgNW Weekend - March 6/7th, 2010
The work party gathered at Tewtfield to be given their safety briefings and being allocated a variety of tasks. The primary focus for the weekend was to cut back some of the vegetation encroaching on the lock flight - no small task!
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While a number of spillways and bywashes were relatively easily subdued by the army of WRGs, the vegetation alongside the locks included small trees and some seriously thick and thorny brambles. The old LCT trip boat was brought into play to gather up branches that fell into the lock chamber and move them down the canal to where they could be pulled ashore and stacked on the bank.
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The WRG/LCT army working on the one of the bywashes.
Before and after shots of the spillway.
Another task was to complete the walling on the Hincaster horse path tunnel parapet that was started during the last work party. On Saturday the last of the walling was built up ready to take the coping stones which were laid on Sunday.
One of the comments the Trust often receives, particularly from boaters arriving at Tewitfield, is that there is no information about the 14 miles of canal awaiting restoration. An information board is now being prepared to address this and, in order to provide a platform to hold the board, one of the weekend's tasks was to build a suitable plinth. While this was not quite finished over the weekend, one more work party effort should see this completed.